Yeah, ARK does need the DLCs, but we are only talking about genesis 2, not the other DLCs. SC just needs a TLC and needs to be finished, and Aberration is probably the best DLC, it’s hard and there’s no fliers. Extinction is kinda boring, but huge part in the story. Genesis one there’s just too many missions, and it’s VERY annoying to grind them out, and on top of that you can’t build in mission zones and there’s like 40 different missions. Then gen 2 brought too many op creatures and broke the game. Also, when the island ending released we knew it was gonna be futuristic (probably) and HJK is looking at it from before the ending, because I think the ending released 2016 or 2017. Introduced by my cousin when it was only island scorched earth (don’t know how many free maps there were) and joined a little bit after aberration.

-Lamprey